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...graduates must of course, start in the lower ranks and many may never reach the highest commands. Over their heads will often pass, though perhaps less frequently in the future, gritty, gifted men from the lowest ranks. A progressive society must follow Napoleon's maxim of "careers open to talent." But accumulating experience confirms the policy of the school. There flows thence a stream of young men who carry from the school into the business world professional standards, a genuine respect for the intellectual and moral requirements of modern business and a continuing thirst and capacity for knowledge. These...
When an ugly fact bobbed up to bother Queen Victoria she knew how to tuck the thing away comfortably out of mind. There are still Britons with that talent. Last week His Majesty's government decided to tuck away the fact of racial conflict between Jews and Arabs in Palestine (TIME, Aug. 26, et seq.]. The thing was attempted by Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald in the course of his great speech outlining policy (see p. 25). Said...
...Revue Beige why he has lived in France most of his life: "If I had remained in Belgium, I should have become a 'miserable macrobite' among the small bourgeois who surrounded me. Belgium professed, at the time when I lived there, a deep hatred of letters. Men who had talent found themselves up against things unless they gave up their art. It was only toward 1880 that things began to change...
...only the tallest but the largest building in the world. As executive in charge of the construction and management of the building Mr. Smith is to receive a salary unofficially reported as $50,000 a year.* Instead of repeating political platitudes about Service, Mr. Smith exercised his famed talent for reciting "the facts" and described the new building as follows: "It can house at one time more than 60.000 people, which is about half the population of the city of Syracuse, enough people to match the population of the city of Troy, three times more than the population...
...Highness may have "a talent for catastrophe," but a newsmagazine of your calibre should not overlook the fact that he also has a talent for breeding Asil Arabian Horses. From what I know, I would say that his main interests are confined to breeding the best horses in the world. His stud in Egypt and Lady Wentworth's stud in England are the only two horsebreeding establishments in the world (except the secret breeding tribes of the Arabian desert to which only the initiated few are admitted) where one can find an unpolluted strain of the blood to which...